Garden-shoe.



G. BRYNING. GARDEN SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17 1912.

1,044,440; Ptented Nov. 12,191.24

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE BRYNING, or nnwnn, OREGON.

GARDEN-SHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1912.

Application filed July 17, 1912-. Serial No. 709,846.

and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this application, and represent in Figure 1 a perspective Viewshowing a pair of garden shoes or skees located in garden irrigationditches. Fig. 2 a side view of one of the shoes and showing a sectionalView of the box located on the blocks carried by the shoes.

This invention relates to an improvement in garden shoes, or, as theymight be called, garden skees, that is, shoes or skees adapted to beused in gardens having irrigation ditches, the object of the inventionbeing to provide shoes or skees which conform substantially in width tothe width of the usual garden irrigation ditches which may be worn whenplanting, weeding or picking, and which will not break up the soil of agarden nor break up the irrigation ditches, will assist in keeping themin shape, and the invention consists in the construction hereinafterdescribed and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a sole 2 formed from wood or anyother suitable material, and of convenient length and thickness.Preferably the under face of the forward end or toe 3 will be rounded,as well as the under face of the heel 4, so that they will slideconveniently in either direction in the irrigation ditch. On the top ofthe sole is a toe clip 5 of leather or other suitable material intowhich the toe of the operator ma extend, so that the shoes may be movePreferably and as herein shown, each sole is provided with a block 6,and these two blocks form a support for a wooden seat or box 7 and soraise the box that it will clear the plants between the ditches.

An operator places one of these shoes or skees on each foot, and oneshoe will slide in one ditch, indicated by 8 in Fig. 1, and the othershoe in a ditch indicated by 9. The

operator thus straddles the bed between the two ditches through whichthe shoes may he slid by the operator as he progresses in his work. Thebox 7 forms a convenient seat for the operator while bending over inplanting, weeding or picking, and may contain tools, plants or othermaterial. As soon as the operator has covered the surface between theditches within reach, he moves forward, sliding first one foot and thenthe other, until he has reached the desired position when he againrests. During the movement he must, of course, raise the box 7 from theblocks 6. It will thus be-seen that shoes are provided which keep, theoperators feet out of the water in the ditches, and enable the operatorto attend to the garden without stopping on the beds, and what is quiteas important, without endangering the walls of the irrigation ditches.

I claim 1. The herein described garden shoe comprising a sole, a blocksecured to theupper face of said sole, and means for attaching the soleto the foot of the operator.

2. The herein described garden shoe comprising a sole, a toe-clipsecured to the upper face of the sole whereby the sole may be attachedto the foot of the o erator, and a block mounted on the upper face ofthe sole in rear of the toe-clip.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses. I

GEORGE BRYNING. Witnesses J. O. HOWARD, A. L. HOWARD.

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Washington, I). G.

